swelter

Example Sentences

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Warm spring evenings that soon will lip into summer swelter.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2025

They swelter at summer temperatures that eclipse the city average by 8 degrees Fahrenheit and the Catalina Foothills by 12 degrees.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2024

People labor six days a week in the tropical swelter, through torrential rains and under the punishing sun.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2023

He described Friday’s swelter as “about normal, I guess.”

From Scientific American • Jul. 17, 2023

I asked Mother if I could cut off my hair, which hung in a dense swelter all the way down my back.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly